Roon ARC

Roon Labs

About this app

*** Roon ARC requires a valid Roon subscription ***

ARC puts the best possible on-the-go music experience in your pocket and lets you enjoy your Roon library and all of Roon's immersive features wherever you are in the world.

ARC is a custom-built streaming service powered by your Roon system at home. Explore your complete collection of artists, albums, playlists, and personal music files, plus TIDAL, Qobuz, and KKBOX streams. Discover added content from Roon's music experts and smart features, such as staff-curated playlists, Daily Mixes, New Releases for You, personalized recommendations, and Roon Radio. You can add albums to your collection, build playlists, set favorites, create tags, and more, just as you can in Roon.

Offline listening lets you download your personal music files to keep the music playing wherever your adventures take you – even if you're off the grid entirely. ARC offers remote access to Roon's captivating library of in-depth artist bios and album articles, revealing the stories that take us deep into the heart of our favorite music. And there's more…

Ready to hit the road? Your Roon library is too! Roon's browsing and discovery features fully integrate into your car's controls for safe and convenient playback. With ARC within easy reach of the wheel, every road you take is a journey in sound. ARC makes the driver's seat feel like your listening chair at home.

ARC is designed to look and feel just like Roon. You get the same intuitive, aesthetically rich Roon interface you know and love, fully optimized for your phone. No more switching between streaming apps; ARC compiles all your music in one place for easy access and maximum enjoyment.

And now, Roon's audio shaping suite and pristine sound quality have arrived in ARC - with bold styling never before seen in a mobile app! MUSE delivers the precision audio control of Roon when you're on the go or running a streamlined mobile setup with ARC. It places radically unique EQ handling, optimized balance control, precision volume leveling, FLAC, DSD & MQA support, crossfeed, headroom management, and sample rate conversion in the palm of your hand.

You can customize sonic qualities to your specific tastes with MUSE, then save or apply them with a few clicks. To top it all off, MUSE even remembers your presets and reapplies them when you reconnect to a known device. The MUSE Signal Path display provides complete audio signal transparency as the music flows through your device - from source media all the way to your speakers.

ARC offers artful design, sound quality, and a music listening experience unmatched by any other music app. Best of all, it's included free with your Roon subscription.

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely unusable, unstable... just doesn't work. after relinking it to my home Room Nucleus for the third or fourth time I watched the circle spin around as I tried to use it in my car for 25 minutes straight. then it finally seemed to connect with everything and I clicked on an album to play and it refused to load. if you like watching the circle spin around with no sound happening definitely download and use this app. All my music is directly available via Qobuz and Deezer. A waste of space

I started (trying) to use ARC as soon as it was released. Early on there were such serious usability issues that I gave up for a while. The last few years have seen serious improvement. My sole use for ARC is in my car via Android Auto. This works reliably now. It connects to my server fairly quickly and once connected the performance is fine, not an issue. My primary disappointment with the app is the relative paucity of features compared to the desktop app. Better search please!

App has been working great for a long time now, until last week! Now I can only play a couple of songs from an album before I get a 'core unreachable' error. Been able to fix this in the past by clearing cache, clearing data, reinstalling app, checking & resetting port forwarding. What else could I be missing? My chief request, other than the fix to above, is to be able to transfer to and from Roon zones. It would be great to be able continue listening to a album or Playlist when I leave.

What’s new

Minor Bugfixes were implemented in this version